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Re: make :Q breakage



> So the man page will say when I change it:
> 
>     :Q   Quotes every shell meta-character in the variable, so that it can be
> 	 passed safely to the shell.
> 
>     :Qm   Quotes every shell meta-character in the variable and `$', so that
> 	 it can be passed safely through recursive invocations of make.
Wouldn't it be more obvious to have both :Qs and :Qm to explicitly state 
what you intend plus a "historic" :Q (behaving like :Qs)?
This would also make it easier to audt Makefiles for :Q mis-usage, I guess.


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